Saturday, March 12, 2016

democracynow | Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is facing a new round of
questions about her handling of the 2009 coup in Honduras that ousted
democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya. Since the coup,
Honduras has become one of the most violent places in the world. Last
week, indigenous environmental activist Berta Cáceres was assassinated
in her home. In an interview two years ago, Cáceres singled out Clinton
for her role supporting the coup. "We’re coming out of a coup that we
can’t put behind us. We can’t reverse it," Cáceres said. "It just kept
going. And after, there was the issue of the elections. The same
Hillary Clinton, in her book, 'Hard Choices,' practically said what was
going to happen in Honduras. This demonstrates the meddling of North
Americans in our country. The return of the president, Mel Zelaya,
became a secondary issue. There were going to be elections in Honduras.
And here she [Clinton] recognized that they didn’t permit Mel Zelaya’s
return to the presidency." We play this rarely seen clip of Cáceres and
speak to historian Greg Grandin.